A global crime we really can do something about

As you know if you read this blog, I’m not a true believer in “Human Induced Climate Change.” In fact, I think much of HICC aka Global Warming is just so much hooey and pantheistic drivel which is intended to bring down capitalism and destroy a Judeo-Christian ethic. Currently, every hurricane, tsunami, tornado or blizzard gets thrown in the mix. I’m sitting here where a glacier passed through not too many thousands of years ago, on land that used to be covered by Lake Erie, and let me tell you, I thank God it warmed up! However, there are some global scourges we can do something about, and slavery is one of them.

From Books and Culture:

“Human trafficking is the fastest-growing global crime. The US State Department reports that 800,000 people are trafficked across borders each year. And the total profits of these horrendous crimes are second only to the trafficking of drugs.

How can this be? And more importantly, how can we help?

This eye-opening and challenging book, Stop the Traffik explores trafficking stories that are both horribly familiar and uncomfortably close to home. Authors Steve Chalke and Cherie Blair trace the scale of these terrible crimes and show us what ordinary people can do to Stop the Traffik—and change the world.”

You might have to give up chocolate! Certifying that chocolate is slave-free could make it quite expensive. You might even have to step out of and break the chain that ridicules and sexualizes children--like the network that pays David Letterman.

"TRAFFICKING IS...
to be deceived or taken against your will, bought, sold and transported into slavery for sexual exploitation, sweat shops, child brides, circuses, sacrificial worship, forced begging, sale of human organs, farm labour, domestic servitude."